Dave is also a professor at the Marshall School of Business at USC. From 2001-2004, he served as Associate Dean of Executive Education. During that time, he launched the largest training program in commercial real estate (with CB Richard Ellis), and new programs with dozens of organizations, from Northrop Grumman to numerous small cap financial institutions. 

Currently, he teaches leadership and negotiation in the USC Executive MBA (ranked fifth in the world), and is on faculty at the Center for Medical Excellence in Portland and the International Center for Leadership In Finance (ICLIF) in Kuala Lumpur, endowed by the former prime minister of Malaysia.

He is author of The Coaching Revolution: How Visionary Managers Are Using Coaching to Empower People and Unlock Their Full Potential (2004), Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization(2008), and The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life, recently selected for the “Warren Bennis” line of books at Wiley. His work has also been published in numerous academic and professional journals, including a 2006 “agenda” in MIT-Sloan Management Review.

Dave has a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from the Annenberg School at USC.